19 Aug
2004
19 Aug
'04
5:19 a.m.
meltie <lists(a)microvax.org> wrote:
Failing that, has anybody taken an image of the ROMs
in an IS100/150 - i'd
quite like to try making a uVAX3100 think it's an Infoserver...
To my knowledge there are no special ROMs in an InfoServer other than
the standard MV3100 console ROM, and it's what lives on its boot disk
that makes it an InfoServer.
MS
19 Aug
19 Aug
5:31 a.m.
To my knowledge there are no special ROMs in an
InfoServer other than
the standard MV3100 console ROM, and it's what lives on its boot disk
that makes it an InfoServer.
Nope, I verified this earlier in the year and there's definitely a
different ROM in there......
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5:58 a.m.
To my knowledge there are no special ROMs in an
InfoServer other than
the standard MV3100 console ROM, and it's what lives on its boot disk
that makes it an InfoServer.
MS
I'm possitive that they have different ROM's, and that there is one other
slight HW difference. IIRC, I've heard of people putting
MicroVAX/VAXstation ROM's in a InfoServer.
Zane
6 a.m.
To my knowledge there are no special ROMs in an
InfoServer other than
the standard MV3100 console ROM, and it's what lives on its boot disk
that makes it an InfoServer.
I know that InfoServer code can be booted on either a uV3100 or
a VS3100 (or maybe both, I forget the exact details) but there's
some setting of bits that needs to be done at the console (I've
forgotten these details too ...). Without the bit setting, the
code will not run on a non-InfoServer box.
So I suspect that the ROMs are different (at least to the extent
of having a different SIDEX burned in there) since that would be
the easiest way of detecting the box type.
Later InfoServers moved away from the KA41/KA42 platform, so
things may be different on later software versions.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
6:26 a.m.
To my
knowledge there are no special ROMs in an InfoServer other than
the standard MV3100 console ROM, and it's what lives on its boot disk
that makes it an InfoServer.
I know that InfoServer code can be booted on either a uV3100 or
a VS3100 (or maybe both, I forget the exact details) but there's
some setting of bits that needs to be done at the console (I've
forgotten these details too ...). Without the bit setting, the
code will not run on a non-InfoServer box. I think Fred has advertised some code that allows
a Unix box to perform the functions of an
InfoServer.
OpenLAST? I know he has - I did contact him about beta-testing it for
him but I got no reply so assumed that he'd already got enough
volunteers to test for him.
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